Olive Tree Disease In Italy 2020
Deadly olive tree disease across europe could cost billions.
Olive tree disease in italy 2020. Insects spread the disease to new plants. Deadly olive tree disease detected in corsica xylella fastidiosa is spread by tiny sap sucking insects known as leafhoppers a deadly bacterial disease with no known cure that ravaged olive groves. One of the hardest hit areas is lecce province in the puglia region pictured here. It has become closely associated with olives after a strain was discovered in trees.
Because the agricultural industry in parts of europe hasn t had enough challenges to contend with lately an incurable bacterium called xylella fastidiosa is again threatening to kill hundreds of. But its storied groves face an uncertain future. A deadly bacterium xylella fastidiosa has killed millions of olive trees in southern italy. Share this with facebook.
The microbe hampers fluid movement in affected plants making their leaves and branches dry out and die. The intense summer weather in southern italy may also have made it easier for the disease to spread among olive trees as insects carrying the bacteria sought out food in the dry conditions. In 2013 a devastating plant bacterium called xylella fastidiosa was. A pathogen is destroying italy s olive trees in the puglia region of italy which produces 40 percent of the country s olive oil a bacterium from the new world xylella fastidiosa is infecting.
Dessicated ridges the size of human thighs scar the giant of alliste an olive tree in southern italy that locals say is 1 000 years old. Olive trees across puglia italy that are infected with a deadly bacterium are being cut down and burned in hopes of slowing the disease s spread.